We stayed only one night in anchorage at Isla Graziosa. It was a bit rolly in the night and the water was not really very warm, although we went for a very short swim. I was still trying to get over my cold and I longed for couple of calm long nights.
We arrived at Marina Rubicon on Friday afternoon. It was as we remembered it - pretty and lively, with lots of shops and restaurants.
On our stroll we discovered cat houses, there is an animal charity that looks after local cats.
And cats are vary happy with all the love and care they are getting. I've already made friends with several of them.
Marina Rubicon is located on SW coast of Lanzarote, on Playa Blanca. There is just a short ferry trip to the neighbour island of Fuerteventura.
To the South of the marina there are cliffs and also some pretty beaches, which we still need to discover.
On Tuesday it was Captain's birthday. We celebrated it with Catherine and Neville of Dream Time...
... and they were so nice to even brought some balloons and made a cake! It was not only very pretty, but super delicious.
We ate it after a good dinner in nearby Italian restaurants. What a lovely birthday party!
We took it slow at the beginning of the week, as my cold was only slowly getting better. But even in the marina I discovered plenty interesting things. These Hydroids and Anemones I found right at our pontoon.
There are also plenty of fish among the boats, small and big, and not only mullets (ciplji), that can tolerate less than perfectly clean water, but also sea breams (orade) and sea bass (brancini) of a pretty good size. And Ruddy Turnstones (kamenjarji) parade the edges of pools.
And then on Friday we rented a car for a drive around the island. We know it is beautiful, we really liked it already 8 years ago. We visited some of the same places, like the Salinas.
On the next parking lot we saw a lot of olivine stones in the lava rocks - they are semi-precious stones of green colour (hence the name), pretty cheap and you can buy jewellery made of it everywhere in Lanzarote. This is how they look like:
They are very fragile and crumble easily. But there are many small ones just lying on the ground and I had to pick some. Even when I was eating a sandwich, my eyes were looking for olivine splinters on the ground.
Our next stop was Los Hervideros. This part of the island got covered in a thick lava layer not even 300 years ago and looks very wild and rugged. Los Hervideros is the part where lava hit the sea and mixing of hot lava and cold sea created holes and tunnels and many interesting shapes.
The red hill nearby creates nice contrast to black lava, blue sky and white clouds.
We drove along the road to El Golfo and saw that it is not possible to stop near this rock any more. Here used to be a small parking lot...
...not just for admiring this spectacular rock (which I had to photograph from moving car)...
...but it was also an access to the green lake behind it. Now we had to drive around (not that it wasn't pretty)...
...park at the El Golfo village and climb around some rocks...
... to get near the green lake. You can only admire it from the far, access is not allowed any more. Probably masses of cars and people were threatening to do too much damage to the lake and the surroundings. Doesn't it's colour looks like that of olivine stones?
Colours are incredible.
And even what you can access is beautiful.
This is the village of El Golfo.
We found this perfect holiday cottage already 8 years ago and it is still just as pretty as it was then.
It even has a small garden, Lanzarote style.
More photos to follow in next posts.
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